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• Nurses (yes, nurses) lead charge for Wall Street 'sin' tax

  A coalition of nurses’ unions is calling for a “Robin Hood” tax on Wall Street, which they say could generate up to $350 billion a year, in the first major protest ahead of this weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago.

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• GM to drop all advertising on Facebook - report

  Updated 4:40 P.M. EDT: In what could speak to Facebook’s viability as advertising medium just days before what is shaping up as a possible record initial public offering, General Motors says it will drop all paid advertising on the site, the Wall Street Journal is reportin …

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• Shopper bitten by rattlesnake in Wal-Mart

  SALMON, Idaho -- When Mica Craig reached down to brush what he thought was a stick off some mulch in the garden section of a Washington state Wal-Mart, it turned around and sank its fangs into his hand. 

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• JPMorgan losses revive worries that Washington is unable to regulate Wall Street

  Updated at 2:45 p.m. ET: JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon is likely to face angry questions at the company's annual meeting Tuesday as massive trading losses raise the question of whether the bank is not only too big to fail, but perhaps too big to r …

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• Catholic worker group storms building housing Obama campaign headquarters, starting week of protest

    Dozens of demonstrators calling for an end to war rushed into President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago on Monday morning, and eight were arrested, NBCChicago reported. The protest, led by a group associated with the Catholic Worker movement, was  …

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